I've started doing a set of squats every time I go to the bathroom at work in an attempt to get the blood flowing, since there's only so much not-sitting I can do in a day.

!!!!! I was doing that all last week! 50 squats as fast as I could every time I went to the loo. I tend to use going to the toilet as an excuse to take a break at uni, so at least it was slightly more productive trip. I also found POP pilates on youtube, which has been really fun to add in as exercise, but I do not do that in the bathroom.

I've been doing really well. Giant green smoothies in the morning, a huge salad before lunch and dinner, and snacking on raw fruits and veggies. I'm down 4 pounds.

I've always been a very planning and organizing-type person, but for some reason I never tried it with my weight loss efforts. This time around I wrote a 6 page weight loss plan outlining everything from my goals, meal ideas, and organizational strategies. It's made a huge difference I think. Now whenever I get discouraged I make myself re-read my entire plan and it helps me recommit to my goals.

I just weighed for first time in a while (Ive been a good girl about avoiding the scale), and I'm back at 144.2. This weight is driving me bonkers. Will I ever get to 143?! Grrr.

On the other hand, I'm pleased I've maintained and lost the bloat that caused my freak out. I ha dnt been tracking, but still tried to be responsible. Uh, except for the bag of red salsa tortilla chips I accidentally bought and ate. Pretty sure those calories didn't count though because I only find those chips every 1-2 yrs.

I'm at the end of my period too, so the weight is good. This is the motivation I needed to start tracking again.

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I've been such a saint this week. No binging on biscuits. I ate a lot of bread though yesterday. I think it was because I let myself get too hungry. Also my walking has gone to pot this week. I've the start of a throat infection so I need to rest up a bit more and not push myself so I am missing out on my morning walk (so that I have time to chill out and relax before work). Still doing a decent walk in the evening though.

I will weigh myself either tomorrow or Friday morning because I have a roadtrip on Saturday and there will be cheesecake at the end of it.

I've always been a very planning and organizing-type person, but for some reason I never tried it with my weight loss efforts. This time around I wrote a 6 page weight loss plan outlining everything from my goals, meal ideas, and organizational strategies. It's made a huge difference I think. Now whenever I get discouraged I make myself re-read my entire plan and it helps me recommit to my goals.

This is brilliant. I need to do it on Evernote, so I can read it everywhere.

Day 5 of blowing through my calorie limit. Oh well, its all learning, right? Does one eat most heavily at a certain time of one's cycle? Because I am all "MUST EAT ALL THE FUDZ! OMNOMNOMNOM"

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I've always been a very planning and organizing-type person, but for some reason I never tried it with my weight loss efforts. This time around I wrote a 6 page weight loss plan outlining everything from my goals, meal ideas, and organizational strategies. It's made a huge difference I think. Now whenever I get discouraged I make myself re-read my entire plan and it helps me recommit to my goals.

This is brilliant. I need to do it on Evernote, so I can read it everywhere.

I did it in Google Docs so I can always pull it up on my phone! Evernote/Keep is a good idea too!

Tofulish, I was going to say yes, but it started like, oh definitely the week before, and the week before that, and the week I'm on...then I was like yeah, that's the whole month pretty much.

_________________I would eat Dr. Cow pocket cheese in a second. I would eat it if you hid it under your hat, or in your backpack, but not if it was in your shoe. That's where I draw the line. -allularpunk

Lavawitch, as I posted a while back, I'm so susceptible I even crave/make whatever they're eating on tv. Although I love the PPK sometimes when I get off this site all I want to do is make food. Lots and lots of food.

Holy shiitake, did I have an extreme binge-y night last night. I had a good, filling supper of stir fry w/tofu; and was thinking about a snack. Then I just went forking nuts, and when I should have gone to bed, I instead ate close to a days worth of calories in two hours. Mother of fork. I'm not even limiting my calorie intake that much- I'm using MFP to track and currently have my calories set at 1600, of which I totally add onto and eat more of per how much I exercise that day. (And I'm really happy with how I've upped my exercise- I agree with you guys up thread that it helps motivate me to exercise more; especially if I'm going to lunch with friends or something). But I'm not so happy with my evening of excess. And of course, none of it was healthy food. I won't even tell you what I ate because it will probably make you hungry.

Just looking for commiseration here, I guess. Not really sure what happened.

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One thing that helps me is brushing my teeth right after dinner. It kind of tells my brain that the eating is done for the day. Otherwise I find myself wanting something sweet later in the evening, and I don't always have the calories for that.

I am losing weight SO SLOW. Like half a pound a week. That's actually right on target with my diet, but I really need to start incorporating more exercise into my life. I've sort of been avoiding serious jumpy bouncy cardio because my knee is kind of messed up at the moment, but I could be doing strength training stuff? Someone tell me to be less lazy! I go on a lot of walks but that's just to run errands and stuff, which I think is a normal part of city life so it doesn't really feel like exercise.

Welcome, geeksweetheart! Speaking of, what do you think of MFP for sugar? I eat a lot of fruit, so it looks like I eat a lot of sugar. I mean, I do eat a lot of sugar kind of, but the majority of it is fruit.

Limone: I started wearing a pedometer so I can make those general day to day walks feel like they count! Would that be an option? I got a kind of fancypants fitbit zip, but even a less expensive one would give you an idea of how much you are actually walking.

_________________I would eat Dr. Cow pocket cheese in a second. I would eat it if you hid it under your hat, or in your backpack, but not if it was in your shoe. That's where I draw the line. -allularpunk

Yeah, I could wear a pedometer but I don't think that would really make a difference. Since I do pretty much the same amount of walking every week and I'm losing weight at the same rate it doesn't actually matter if I know how much I've walked? That's what I meant about it not really being like "exercise" for me, since it's part of my regular routine and doesn't really get my heart rate up. I think it's good that I'm not sitting on my asparagus 100% of the time but I need to go out of my way to incorporate more exercise into my routine, whether it's strength-training or going for epic walks instead of neighborhood errands or whatever.

_________________I would eat Dr. Cow pocket cheese in a second. I would eat it if you hid it under your hat, or in your backpack, but not if it was in your shoe. That's where I draw the line. -allularpunk